UTSA conference to highlight colonial cartography

(April 2, 2009)--The UTSA Department of Political Science and Geography and the Texas Map Society will host a conference, "Mapping the New World: Spanish Colonial Cartography," from 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, April 4 in the Buena Vista Street Building Aula Canaria (1.328) at the UTSA Downtown Campus. The conference will feature presentations by nationally renowned scholars in the fields of North American and Spanish colonial cartography.

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Richard Kagan, professor of early modern history, Johns Hopkins University

John Hebert, chief of the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress

David Buisseret, former holder of the Garret Chair at the University of Texas at Arlington

Ricardo Padron, associate professor of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia

John Miller Morris, associate professor of geography, UTSA

John Wheat, Center for American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.

The conference was made possible by grants from The Summerlee Foundation and Humanities Texas. Community partners include the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and the San Antonio Museum of Art.

>> Registration to attend the presentations and luncheon is $50, $25 for the presentations only. Limited space is available for UTSA students to attend the presentations for free. To register, contact Gary Houston, UTSA Department of Political Science and Geography, at (210) 458-5610.